Dustin Liechty and Chandler Hall, members of the Southern Utah Dance Company, perform the Argentine Tango during an intercollegiate competition in San Diego.

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The Southern Utah Ballroom Dance Company hustled and fox trotted its way to victory earlier this month in an intercollegiate competition called "Dance by the Shores" at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, Calif.

Andrea Johnson, director of the company, said the competition took place the first weekend of March, and the company danced against nine other schools from Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada. The SUU dancers placed in the top six in 10 different dance categories for individual competition, she said, and placed third in the team dance competition.